Mega Menu (same as 'blocks'?)

Hi Support Team,
I have your Newspaper theme installed for a client. I’m using Custom Post Types (CPT) on the Home Page blocks. These CPT’s use standard WP categories, they are registered with: ‘register_taxonomy_for_object_type( ‘category’, ‘cpt_slug’). That works nicely on the blocks, no problem there. But I’d like to have the same on the Mega Menu. However, that mega menu depends on ‘parent categories’ and ‘child categories’. Without a ‘parent’ category, no mega menu. But my CPT’s do not have ‘parent’ categories.
My question is: how can I get this to work (if at all?) in the mega menu? I have a feeling it should not be too difficult, although it probably involves some custom coding. I have no problem doing that, I just don’t know how.
I hope the above is clear, if not, I’ll be happy to explain further.
Thanks for your support (and by the way, a beautiful theme!).

Comparing the php files for the normal ‘blocks’ (where the AJAX dropdown filter works with CPT’s) and the files used for the Mega Menu, there seems to be not much difference. So, I don’t understand why it cannot be added to the Mega Menu options (just like the option for CPT in normal blocks).
Having searched the Forum, I found this question is asked many times with always the same reply: “Not Supported”.
Your theme developers should realize that CPT’s are widely used, especially on large and complex websites where Newspaper is targeted at.
Anyway, the search for a solution continues.
In the meantime, I’ve just skipped your Mega Menu for Ubermenu (which supports CPT’s).

Thank you for your answer, but still not exactly happy, I started some experimenting.

What I did was this:

• Put a block on an empty page (it’s ‘td_block_14’, but that doesn’t really matter, and just the block shortcode, no vc rows or vc_columns). It’s set to display 4 categories only.
• Called that page from the ‘mega menu’ options in the Menu Manager.
• Adjusted the php-files of the block and of course the asssociated module ‘td_module_mx1’
• Adjusted styling on the ‘inner content’, and especially the ‘ajax dropdown’.
• Added a very small jQuery script to make the ‘ajax dropdown’ immediately visible and have it set to the default category ‘All’.

Done!

The Mega Menu now exactly looks and functions like your mega menu, only with Custom Post Types!
Well, ok, I have to admit: on desktops, I need to adjust some styling for responsiveness. That’s for tomorrow 😉

I know this is kind of a hack and not ideal. I also know I should not use existing blocks and modules, but add new ones via your API. That’s also for tomorrow.

However, when I – with limited coding skills – can do this in a day, I’m sure your developers can do this in a few hours.

This was my original question: why is there support for CPT’s in all blocks, but not in the Mega Menu?
It just doesn’t make sense.

So, please make this happen.

Sigh, you don’t even read, please see my first post: my CPT’s use standard WP categories, that is what I’m talking about. As I stated above: I got the Mega Menu working on a development site exactly as your example, but with CPT’s. I didn’t need a freelancer/developer to accomplish this, thank you very much. So I repeat: when I can do this in a day, I do not understand why you cannot do it as well.

I admit my approach is a bit of a hack and probably not the best, I’m sure you can do it in a more streamlined way. BUT, I refuse to accept that it is way too complex as you suggest! That’s just not true.

I now have the impression that you simply do not want to look into it. Every reply is: “It’s not supported, bye, bye!”
Which is totally unsatisfying.
Sorry.

I am not asking for support, I’m asking you to include this in the next theme update, as it is a feature much sought after (seeing the many requests for this) and it is not so complex to implement, contrary to what you constantly suggest.
Thank you for your understanding.

I just want to jump in here and add my own two cents.

I was able to sift through your theme code and modify the mega menu to support both custom post types and custom taxonomies. It took me about two business days to get it all sorted out. I’m under a tight budget though, so I have a few hacky things in place (hard-coded custom post types, the admin selection could be improved to clearly separate the taxonomies).

It was mostly just an issue with WP_Query where, instead of passing in a ‘cat’, you must nix that and pass in ‘tax_query’ options instead.

I’m not much of a WordPress developer, but I imagine that someone with more experience in WordPress and the Newspaper theme could add this feature in only a few hours. Certainly not more than a full business day.

I had originally purchased this theme thinking that it had full support for custom post types and was a bit disappointed when I had to jump in and edit code. Perhaps my vetting process was not sufficient, but your seemingly partial support of custom post types is what threw me off. More and more websites are using custom post types, so I imagine I (and the original poster of this thread) are not the only ones who would like this functionality added (to the mega menu, at least).

As I wrote before “it is not so complex to implement”. However, seeing the comment above tagdiv still has not done it, 18 months after the original request.
Seems the theme ‘developers’ simply refuse.
Which is unbelievable as Mr. Bogdan B wrote: “Hopefully we will be able to include this”
Oh well, in the meantime, I’ve moved on to a better solution. Goodbye!
Good luck with the Newspaper theme ‘development’. (Or should I say LACK of ‘development’?)

I cannot find those pages in the code. I’m guessing it’s an older version. Where can I find the code generating the mega menu? I can’t seem to find it anywhere. Thank you.